Montana Voters Overwhelmingly Said That Corporations Aren't People

A whopping 75 percent of Montana's voters approved an initiative
Tuesday stating corporations are not people.

Montana voters specifically said "corporations are not entitled
to constitutional rights because
they are not human beings," Courthouse News Service reported.

The measure
was a stinging rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court's June
decision to do away with the state's campaign-finance limits.

In its June ruling, the Supreme Court essentially affirmed its
divisive 2010 decision in Citizens United finding federal limits
on political expenditures interfered with corporations' "free
speech" rights.

(That ruling allowed political contributions to organizations
supporting campaigns, namely super PACS, but it left in place a
bar on direct political campaign contributions.)

In reality, it's
a huge long shot that the state's representatives will be
able to amend the Constitution, Jess Bravin points out in the
Wall Street Journal. For that to happen,
two-thirds of lawmakers in both houses of Congress would have to
sign off and then three-fourths of the states would have to adopt
the change.

But the measure shows Montanans aren't just going to let Citizens
United go.